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Walter Jakob Gehring

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Walter Jakob Gehring
Walter Jakob Gehring (2014)
Born(1939-03-20)March 20, 1939
Zurich, Switzerland
DiedMay 29, 2014(2014-05-29) (aged 75)
Basel, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental Biologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Zurich, Yale Medical School, Yale University, Biozentrum University of Basel

Walter Jakob Gehring (March 20, 1939 – May 29, 2014) was a Swiss developmental biologist. He was a professor at the Biozentrum Basel[1] of the University of Basel, Switzerland. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich in 1965. After two years as a research assistant of Professor Ernst Hadorn he joined Professor Alan Garen's group at Yale University in New Haven as a postdoctoral fellow.[2]

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.[3]

References

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  1. "Official website". Biozentrum.unibas.ch. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  2. "Imaginal Disc Abnormalities in Lethal Mutants of Drosophila". ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  3. "Walter Gehring". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.